Ralph Lauren quietly shuttered its two-year-old 20,000-square-foot store last week. Other brands are expected to close boutiques in a city that has lost its luster for cash-rich mainland Chinese tourists.

“It’s such a good business model. If you are a mom and you are a decent person, you are going to want to give. This organization makes it very easy to get your stuff to the right people. They should have one in every city,” Barrymore said.

The event raised over $1 million on the spot with the help of credit card scanners at each table and Bowen’s onstage wrangling, or as she termed it “doing my best Oprah.”

It was the rare event where husbands came along willingly, in no small part because of the celebrity chef food stations. “My husband is so hungry that as soon as they opened the dinner doors he dragged me in here to beat the lines,” Phillips said of the spread including booths from Michael Voltaggio’s Ink, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo’s Animal and Son of a Gun and Ludo Lefebvre’s Trois Mec.

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